By Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
Nando De Colo is about to win the January MVP award, Justin Carter is the key player of Galatasaray and we chose them for the next Euroleague week in our fantasy team. Moreover, Ante Tomic is a player that none should ignore.
Last week there were many players who had huge scores and many fantasy players had huge numbers. Eurohoopsnet team earned 178,3 points and it was an average score (4241th overall). This season the battle in the top is hard and the top rankings change almost every week. Lathspell, Aralos and EVICROCK are close to the prize.
Let’s see what’s going on with fantasy this week. The team that allows their opponents to grab less rebounds are Alba (31,8), Unicaja (33) and Real Madrid (33,5). For Brian Randle’s ranking the key is the rebounds. The Madridistas know how to protect their rim and we get rid of the American center of Maccabi. Moreover, James Anderson disappointed us during the last weeks and we will sell him in front of the game in Barcelona.
The third player who should leave is a tricky choice but we will end up in Nemanja Bjelica. The Serbian is an all-around player who gives ranking points by many ways but he hasn’t produced yet a huge game. Fenerbahce faces Unicaja on the road and we will sacrifice him in order to buy Nando De Colo. The French guard plays excellently in the Top 16 and he is the ultimate favorite to win the MVP award for this month. He’s expensive but is an excellent choice against Nizhny.
Our second player in the perimeter will be Justin Carter. He signed with Galatasaray a little before the start of the Top 16 and in every game he gets a more and more important role in the team. Ataman trusts him a lot; he’s athletic and most probably he will have a big score against Panathinaikos. Apart from the points, he will offer you easily credits because his value will be raised to 52,9 if he will make a ranking more than 12.
In the front line we will buy again Ante Tomic. Our decision last week to sell him because of Marjanovic wasn’t right and we invite him back. Barcelona hosts Zalgiris and Tomic is expected to have a big score.
Point Guards
Milos Teodosic 78,7 credits (+1,7)
Sergio Rodriguez 57,2 credits (+2,4)
Shooting Guards/Small Forwards
Nando De Colo 82,9 credits
Vassilis Spanoulis 76,4 credits (+3,7)
Rudy Fernandez 70,8 credits (+2,8)
Justin Carter 46 credits
Power Forwards/Centers
Jamel McLean 80,9 credits (-0,8)
Ante Tomic 76,6 credits
Andrey Vorontsevich 63,8 credits (-3,9)
Esteban Batista 54,2 credits (+2,4)